Seraphine vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Seraphine
based on 5,837 Seraphine vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Seraphine
Advice to Win Against Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Seraphine vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Seraphine in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Seraphine against Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this set of champs. Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Seraphine often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Seraphine and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually fairs equally well when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Seraphine does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Seraphine also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Seraphine into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Seraphine also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Seraphine is a somewhat poor counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Seraphine against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Seraphine in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine often picks up more CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Seraphine versus Xin Zhao build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Moonstone Renewer. When Seraphine bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Xin Zhao than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Seraphine boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Xin Zhao as Seraphine, Seraphine players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Triple Tonic, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Seraphine vs Xin Zhao counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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